Massachusetts News

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Christopher Bizilj's parents approved the Westfield Sportsman's Club's plea deal reached Thursday in Hampden Superior Court, where his mother's written description... newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online subscribers.

A Massachusetts judge has set aside four days in April to conduct an inquest into the 1986 death of the brother of an Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues last month.

A state trooper who lives in Sandwich won't have to sweat a second prosecution on a charge that he improperly stored his department-issued gun.

After Governor Deval Patrick nixed a $5 fee it wanted to impose for in-person services, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is trying to find new ways of avoiding face-to-face transactions.

A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died.

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In 1774 the British enacted what would become known to Massachusetts colonists as the "Intolerable Acts." Among these acts was the Massachusetts Government Act, which essentially stripped the Massachusetts colonists of their right to govern their colony.

The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill allowing the city of Lawrence to float up to $35 million in municipal bonds to help balance its budget.

Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen.

The Massachusetts man accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter by overmedicating her with prescription drugs is blaming his wife and a psychiatrist for the girl's death in 2006.

The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is trying a workaround after the governor killed a $5 fee it wanted to impose for in-person service.

Mitt Romney urged caution for the general election, but indicated that has no problem letting the party sort out its divisions in primaries.

Consumers in Massachusetts will be able to obtain rebates on new energy-efficient home appliances purchased between April 22 and May 5, Energy and Environmental Secretary Ian A. Bowles said on Friday.

The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year.

A Massachusetts judge has turned down a new trial request by a man who called himself Clark Rockefeller.Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was convicted last year of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter and assaulting a social worker supervising their visit in 2008.The Suffolk district attorney's office says it received notice Monday of the Feb.

And the happiest guy in the room yesterday afternoon was Bill Delahunt. Since Scott Brown's rise as the crown prince of anti-pols, Bill Delahunt has been tagged as a kind of walking dead man - a remnant of a big government pol with a bigger heart.

Legislation Bans 'Cyberbullying,' Compels Schools To Report Incidents A bill scheduled to be debated before the Massachusetts State Senate if passed into law will require the state's schools to take a tougher stance on bullying.

At Mass MoCA, IA igo Manglano-Ovalle's "Gravity Is a Force to Be Reckoned With'' is based on Mies van der Rohe's "The 50x50 House.'' Few parts of the world make the prospect of a day or two's museum-hopping quite as inviting as Western Massachusetts.

Two civic groups are banding together to make sure there's a full count of Boston-area Asians in this year's federal census.